A truck branded with advertising for Liberal candidate for Cowan Luke Simpkins has got suck under the Bayswater subway this morning.

A photo of the stuck truck was taken by Geoff Hodder and posted on the Baysie Rollers Facebook page.

The drivers of trucks and buses routinely fall victim to Perth’s so-called subways, where train lines pass over roadways with restricted clearance heights.

11.49am

Malcolm Turnbull has seized on the knife-edge Brexit vote to make a pitch for stability from Australians.

Addressing a community lunch in Devonport, Tasmania, the Prime Minister said the result was too close but would cause turbulence.

"If Britain were to vote to leave the European Union, that will create uncertainty and somewhat of a shock," he said.

"I am sure stability will return in due course but it will be a shock and it's a reminder as Margaret Thatcher once said to expect the unexpected."

Mr Turnbull said there were many things the government could not control, such as the global and Chinese economies, the British vote and commodity prices.

"So we need to have strong economic leadership here, we need to have a stable majority government with an economic plan so that we are resilient and able to deal with those unexpected events that occur," he said.

11.18pm

Bill Shorten has not ruled out forming an alliance with independents or the Nick Xenophon Team in the event of a hung parliament to form government.

The coalition and Labor have both ruled out cutting a deal with the Greens and made clear their intentions to govern alone.

Mr Shorten, who is in Darwin, was asked this morning whether he would be willing to form an alliance with independents MPs such as Nick Xenophon, Tony Windsor or Rob Oakeshott if the July 2 poll returned a hung parliament.

He said the best way to guarantee certainty was to put a number one next to the name of a Labor candidate.

“My intention is to try and win this election and I think Labor can win this election,” Mr Shorten said.

“My intention is to get Australians’ first-preference votes. My intention is for us to get as many seats as possible.”

Mr Windsor and Mr Oakshott are not currently in Parliament, but hope to be returned as independents on July 2.

Mr Shorten said the election was not over yet.

“I’m fighting this election down to the last minute,” he said.

“You can talk to me at 5.59pm on Saturday and I’ll still be chasing votes.”

At the same press conference in Darwin's Bicentennial Park, Mr Shorten revealed that he still kept in touch with former prime minister Kevin Rudd, who was missing from Labor’s campaign launch in Penrith because he was overseas.

He wished Mr Rudd well in his international pursuits.

10.25pm

Malcolm Turnbull has admitted Liberal MPs won’t be bound to accept the result of the $160 million plebiscite if Australians vote in favour of allowing gay couples to wed.

Campaigning in Tasmania, Mr Turnbull signalled MPs would still have a conscience vote when asked whether Cabinet solidarity would bound frontbenchers to support same sex marriage even if it went against their personal views.

Mr Turnbull said the “tradition” in the Liberal Party was for a conscience vote but he expected that opponents such as Treasurer Scott Morrison would “abide” by the wishes of the Australian people.

“I have no doubt that if the plebiscite is carried, as I believe it will be, that you will see an overwhelming majority of MPs and senators voting for it,” he said.

The Prime Minister also said Bill Shorten had been “caught out lying” after the Opposition Leader blunted his attack the Government over Medicare.

“He has been lying about Medicare and he’s been caught out,” he said.

“If somebody is running for prime minister and they’re prepared to lie about something as that to vulnerable Australians, how can you trust anything else he says?

10.15pm

Bill Shorten has conceded that Malcolm Turnbull does not have current plans to privatise Medicare.

The Opposition Leader's claim that the coalition would outsource parts of the cherished healthcare system is at the heart of the Medicare scare campaign that has dominated week seven of the eight-week election campaign.

But Mr Shorten, who is campaigning in Darwin this morning, said he was not convinced by the Prime Minster’s “new-found love of Medicare”.

“They’ve been on the road to privatisation,” Mr Shorten said.

“What’s happened though of course is Malcolm Turnbull has seen the mounting electoral backlash against all his Medicare changes, so what he’s done is he’s doubled down and he’s said ‘listen, on this issue, we won’t do anything more for the time being’.”

The PM promised earlier this week to "never ever" privatise Medicare, after the coalition abandoned a plan to outsource the payment operations of Medicare.

Liberal MPs have today seized on Mr Shorten’s refusal to repeat the claim.

Deputy Liberal leader Julie Bishop said Mr Shorten had exposed himself as “seeking to sneak into government as prime minister on the basis of a lie”.

Finance Minister Mathias Cormann said Mr Shorten was “running scared of his own scare campaign”.

Speaking at Darwin’s Bicentennial Park, Mr Shorten said Mr Turnbull had been “caught with his hand in the policy cookie jar” and his moves to put up the price of medicine and get rid of bulk-billing incentives for pathology services were evidence that a future Turnbull Government would indeed dismantle the Medicare system.

“He’s been very clear that he believes in outsourcing of the payments system,” he said.

“He said as much in Parliament and he has a $5 million taskforce that they created.”